Some random crap:
My mommy got me a 40″ Sony LCD HDTV for Xmas. I was planning to get something in the 46″ range later in 2008, but 40″ turns out to be plenty big (plus, it’s free, yo!). That mother of mine is pretty cool. Even if she does have a thundering herd of Great Danes at her house (including this one and this one, who will make you cry).
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Did you hear the Lakota have decided to secede from the US? I figure this is roughly equivalent to them going on strike. They’re grabbing some attention and might get some sort fo concession from the US government, but in the end it will amount to nothing. Though, Brozo and I think it’d be fun if they started tolling traffic on I-90 and formed an army. How long do you think it would take for them to be labeled “terrorists” if they did that?
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Did you hear that monkeys are as good at mental mathematics as college kids?
“We had them do math on the fly,” Cantlon said.
The task was to mentally add two sets of dots that were briefly flashed on a computer screen. The teams were asked to pick the correct answer from two choices on a different screen.
The humans were not allowed to count or verbalize as they worked, and they were told to answer as quickly as possible. Both monkeys and humans typically answered within 1 second.
And both groups fared about the same.
Great. Just great.
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Maybe they can help economists decide whether there’s going to be a recession or not.
“A lot of the underlying resilience of the U.S. economy seems a bit unappreciated,” says Citigroup economist Steven Wieting. “It’s not clear that this is so large a burden that we can’t muddle through this.”
That’s the best this guy could come up with? Muddle through?
I hate the Apple Store. I have from the beginning. I guess some people like it (or did like it), but I’m not one of them.
I like to be able to actually buy things in stores without having to enlist a fulltime escort. Nothing frustrated me more than needing a new iPod, walking into the store, seeing a table loaded with iPods packaged for Christmas joy… BEHIND a friggin’ rope. I stood there frozen, staring at my just out of my reach goal, thinking “How… Do… I… Buy… One…?” until I got frustrated enough to walk out and buy the iPod online from home.
Conversely, I was fine with the expectation of having to talk to someone when I wanted to buy my iMac. That’s a big purchase with options involved. I’m fine talking to someone about that. I shouldn’t need to talk to someone to buy an iPod, though. At least not until my credit card is out.
So after successfully waiting for the release of Leopard (the latest version of OS X), I ran out the other day and plopped down my rewards-earning MasterCard to purchase a 24″ glass and brushed aluminum sculpture known as the iMac. It’s the 2.8GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM, and the 500GB hard drive, and it’s the tits. I even dig on Apple’s new waffer thin keyboard, somewhat to my surprise.
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Hey, so yesterday was the third anniversary of my being able to call Hezzy “The Wife”. (Later in the month is the twelve year mark for our couplehood, however.)
It being the glass/crystal/leather anniversary, The Wife asked for a new shiny LCD HDTV.
I like her. 
Good times this weekend.
The primary highlight was a video game tourney and home-cooked Korean barbecue at my friend Peter’s house. Peter (a former co-worker) and his fiance, Ann, laid out quite a spread of delicious kalbi, rice cakes, kalbi, fried fish, kalbie, kimchi, and some totally yummy kalbi. We also played a bunch of video games, but most of that part of the night is kind of fuzzy. I know I played the wrong screen on 4-man Halo and therefore got pwned.
One part that is clear is that The Wife pronounced “I want one!” almost as soon as she touched the Nintendo Wii. The Wife gets what The Wife wants (especially when it’s something I’ve been forcing myself *not* to buy up to now), so we now have a shiny new Wii and the sore shoulders to prove it. (Here’s the tip for those of you searching for a Wii: WalMart. I never go in the place, generally, but our local Wally World had about 10 of the things.)
Now we just have to find something other than Wii Sports to play on the thing…
Oh, and yesterday I came into work for a half day. Boo. Big launch tomorrow, so it’s crunch time…
Depending on which phone and which plan the iPhone costs between $2000 and $3000 $6000 over two years.
I just switched providers and the three phones I got for the Wife, the Mother-in-Law, and myself and the service for those phones should run me on the low side of the iPhone range in the same time period.
Besides that, I really don’t need my phone to do much more than make calls, send texts, and take pictures. By those criteria, I am pretty happy with my Synch (and it’s even more phone than I need).
So, yeah. Up to now, I’ve been saying “I’ll wait until the third generation of the iPhone.” Unless my needs drastically change between now and then, however, I doubt I’d get one then either.
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